The Saraguro Indians of Ecuador's southern Loja Province have earned
a degree of economic independence through cattle production. Many
Saraguros own large cattle ranches which sometimes puts them at odds
with the rest of the Indian movement which is largely comprised of poor
people chronically short of land. This has led to contradictory
approaches to land reform on the part of Ecuador's Indigenous
populations, which underscores the complexity of ethnic movements in
that country.
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